QI Compilation | Stephen's Anecdotes

Phil Jupitus's Hugh Laurie impression is 100% on point.

"Peter. I have seen you buying vegetables." I don't know why that's so funny.

The mental image of a young and terrified Stephen Fry talking to Count Dooku over the phone while Grand Moff Tarkin watches is incredible.

just give the editor a raise already

Such a shame we haven't had Steven back as a guest yet. Maybe for the final episode of season Z, you have to make it happen.

Ok but that Christopher Lee impression was perfect.

Can I just give a shout out for a little known man called Tommy Flowers. He was a telephone engineer and the son of a bricklayer. He build the computer that Alan Turin used. His place in history is almost forgotten but his contribution was immense

Stephen properly geeks out over that phone call between Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee!

I think Stephen might’ve lived one of the most fascinating lives of all time

My favourite anecdote from QI is one Stephen told of Winston Churchill being woken by one of his staff one morning in the 1950s: "I'm afraid there's been a scandal, Prime Minister; one of our backbench MPs was found with a guardsman in St James's park in the bushes last night by the police and the papers got a hold of it." Churchill said: "Last night?!" "Yes" came the reply. "Very cold last night, wasn't it?" Responded Churchill. "Yes, Prime Minister, I believe it was one of the coldest February nights for thirty years". Churchill replied: "Makes ya proud to be British!!".

The fact that he calls his parents "Mummy" and "Daddy", UNPROMPTED-

I love Emma being like "gotta get the nerdy mate to sort it" (I love how long her, him and Hugh have been friends, she introduced them)

To whoever edits these, Bless you for this brilliant content

Funny to realise that Emma Thompson was basically describing how she'd accidentally changed the font on her script to Wingdings.

Notification: "watch Stephen's anecdotes" Me: sadly i don't have 14 hours to spare right now but as soon as im free i shall watch immediately

It's reassuring in a strange way to see someone as eloquent as Stephen mixing "chicken" and "chimney" at 7:12.

0:12 Higson and Whitehouse, plasterers 0:55 The Mormon tour 2:32 Making an Oscar 3:27 Recovery of a screenplay 4:55 The hamster ball 5:32 Alan Turing and Apple Computers 6:22 The Owl and the AGA 7:26 A nudge from the Queen 8:17 Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable 9:05 A call to Christopher Lee 10:08 Vincent Price requests the mustard 10:40 A young man called Heinz

Stephen looks like exactly the type of man to have accidentally yeeted a hamster

Stephen has the best stories & experiences, and he recalls them so eloquently. What a story teller

0:56 As a gay ex-Mormon from Utah, Stephen Fry's response to the eternal family in Mormon doctrine was already 100% relatable because there are tons--TONS--of family members I never want to see again, much less spend eternity with, but I found out this week that Stephen Fry is gay (I know, I know, I'm the last one to know, I have no idea how it took so long...) so now the relatability has shot up to 200-300% because he KNOWS, he really KNOWS how much of a hell eternity with certain family members would be!